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every twenty feet in the length of the wall ; and let 

 the whole be interspersed with riders if your wall be 

 eight feet high or upwards. These last should all 

 be of kinds which bear almost immediately as 

 cherries, plums, and various sorts of apples. The 

 dwarfs are trained close to the ground; the riders 

 are so called because they overtop their neighbours : 

 and the first design is to have them out when the 

 dwarfs make up to them. But it may happen that 

 you will be loath to part with one of these short- 

 leased tenants, especially if the neighbour that comes 

 to supplant him prove less deserving; in which case 

 the rider, with his long shank, may be trained in the 

 form of a windmill, pointing the vanes in all direc- 

 tions, or two branches may be led downwards, parallel 

 to the main stem ; and from these lateral shoots will 

 spring, which may serve to fill all the required space. 

 Of free growers, the wood bears most fruit when 

 submitted to such tortuous course. 



With regard to the other walls, it may be proper 

 to have on certain portions of them, duplicates of 

 some of the trees which have been chosen for the 

 south exposure. This will be found convenient 

 chiefly in the case of such fruits as keep no time, but 

 must be eaten quite ripe from the tree as cherries, 

 plums, and some pears. In the one situation the 

 crop will be finished when that on the other begins 

 to ripen ; and thus the season of fruit gathering is 

 agreeably prolonged. The red magnum ripens early, 

 and has no need of a better aspect than the east or 

 west. Observe the shelter as well as the sun. Per- 

 haps the one wall may have more of either than the 

 other ; and you have only to choose the position 



